New data protection laws are placing an “intolerable burden” on schools, Bob Geldof has told an education technology conference. The rock star and anti-poverty activist is a co-founder of Groupcall, a company set up in 2001, which provides “communication, data and identity management solution...
California and Florida’s Student Online Privacy Protection Acts (“SOPIPA”) each require that SchoolMint does not knowingly engage in the following activities in connection with personally identifiable information from or about students (further defined the respective laws as “covered information”):...
Last week, the UK's data protection agency, said thatchildren should know about their rights regarding data protectionand online privacy. I couldn't agree more -- but it falls back down to poor education. Kids are being taught to write documents in Word and create flashy presentations in Pow...
Data accessed in the breach included travel details email addresses as well as the complete credit card details of 2,208 customers. Because customer credit card information was leaked, this cyber attack exposes Easyjet’s breach of the General Data Protection Regulation, which could result in a ...
request personal data that concern you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and pass on these data to another controller without an obstruction, in any way; complain to the Office for the Protection of Personal Data of Spain (AEPD); and object to the processing of...
Few aspects of school life these days come without data collection, from fingerprint scanners in canteens to software monitoring pupils’ attendance. But how safe is the information garnered by schools, and at what point do the risks of it falling into t
The use of CCTV in schools is now commonplace in the UK. It is estimated that 85% of all UK secondary schools currently have CCTV systems in operation. The introduction of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) (enacted in March 2000) meant that for the first time ...
A data policy In this quasi-monopolistic framework, how can governance foster an increase in knowledge production and its disclosure to the public? If the seven assumptions above hold, in a data intensive economy knowledge production using BD and AI tends towards a natural monopoly, which leads ...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)is Europe’s digital privacy regulation. It requires companies to protect the privacy and personal data of EU citizens when a transaction takes place in the EU—even if the business doesn’t have a presence there. It also requires companies to get permiss...
But if schools are keen to embrace the benefits it can provide, what are the key steps to remain compliant and avoid a brush with the regulator? Here’s how schools can ensure they remain compliant with data protection law. 1. Bring the DPO in from the start ...